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title: "Samsung projects a 2027 capacity crunch across every node below 8nm"
description: "From the The Forward Pass daily issue, November 2, 2026."
canonical: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-11-02/samsung-projects-a-2027-capacity-crunch-across-every-node-below-8nm
updated: 2026-11-02
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# Samsung projects a 2027 capacity crunch across every node below 8nm

From The Forward Pass daily issue, November 2, 2026 (https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-11-02). Source: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-11-02/samsung-projects-a-2027-capacity-crunch-across-every-node-below-8nm

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**Top News** · Reported · digitimes.com

Samsung’s contract chipmaking business spent years struggling to fill its factories. Now Samsung says demand will exceed capacity across every node below 8nm by 2027, a reversal from that earlier problem.

Here’s what changed:
- The third-quarter earnings-call forecast covers all nodes below 8nm, not just a single process node.
- Utilization at those nodes is expected to exceed 100%, putting projected demand above available capacity.
- The analysis attributes the projected crunch to demand from Samsung’s own memory unit.

One catch: this is Samsung’s forecast for 2027, not a report that capacity is already exhausted.

Why care? Samsung’s own memory unit is behind the projected capacity crunch, according to the analysis. The forecast concerns all nodes below 8nm.

Sources: [digitimes.com](https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261029VL222/samsung-business-2027-capacity-revenue.html)